About

Alan Goldstein is senior Bishop at World Hope Church and Alan Goldstein Ministries. What sets Bishop Alan Goldstein apart from the rest is his ability to relentlessly pursue tasks until completion.

Prior to preaching the word of God fulltime Alan established his own accounting and tax resolution firm, Alan was a business and private mortgage investor where his practice focused on purchasing businesses and selling businesses.

Alan received his M.B.A. (finance) degree from Nova Southeastern University and his B.A. degree from St. Thomas University. He is an Enrolled Agent who is licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS, he is a Licensed Real Estate Broker, and he has been licensed as a Florida Supreme Court Certified Civil Mediator.

He is a member of several organizations, serves as Treasurer for several nonprofits, and is admitted to practice before the IRS and state taxing authorities as an Enrolled Agent.

He lives with his wife and son in Miami, FL but loves to travel with his family to preach the word of God.

Licenses

Enrolled Agent (Licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS)

Licensed Real Estate Broker (Business Broker)

Florida Supreme Court Certified Civil Mediator (Inactive)

Aircraft Broker

Amateur Radio Operator

Education

D.Th. – Doctorate in Theology (in process)

M.B.A. – Master of Business Administration (concentration in finance)

B.A.P.S- Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

A.S. – Associates of Arts in Music Business

D.B.A.- Doctorate in Business Administration (candidate)

Bishop

Bishop elect Alan Goldstein has been selected by the board of All Nations Christian Church International (ANCCI) as Bishop elect under Apostolic Succession.

Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is held to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops.[1] This series was seen originally as that of the bishops of a particular see founded by one or more of the apostles. According to historian Justo L. González, apostolic succession is generally understood today as meaning a series of bishops, regardless of see, each consecrated by other bishops, themselves consecrated similarly in a succession going back to the apostles.[2] But, according to documentation produced by the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, the sees (cathedrae) play “an important role in inserting the bishop into the heart of ecclesial apostolicity”.[3]

Those who hold for the importance of apostolic succession via episcopal laying on of hands appeal to the New Testament, which, they say, implies a personal apostolic succession (from Paul to Timothy and Titus, for example). They appeal as well to other documents of the early Church, especially the Epistle of Clement.[4] In this context, Clement explicitly states that the apostles appointed bishops as successors and directed that these bishops should in turn appoint their own successors; given this, such leaders of the Church were not to be removed without cause and not in this way. Further, proponents of the necessity of the personal apostolic succession of bishops within the Church point to the universal practice of the undivided early Church (up to AD 431), before being divided into the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Christians of the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Old Catholic, Anglican, Moravian, and Scandinavian Lutheran traditions maintain that “a bishop cannot have regular or valid orders unless he has been consecrated in this apostolic succession.